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Dan Stevens Cast as RoboCop in Prime Video Reboot

The greenlit eight-episode series is intended to update the 1987 satire by testing corporate power, technology, identity.

Overview

  • Amazon MGM Studios has given the project an eight-episode order and confirmed Dan Stevens will play Alex Murphy/RoboCop.
  • Showrunner Peter Ocko will write and run the series while Blumhouse Atomic Monster’s James Wan, Michael Clear and Rob Hackett executive produce.
  • Co-writers of the 1987 film, Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner, are attached as executive producers to preserve the original’s satirical tone.
  • The official logline says a giant tech conglomerate convinces a city to put a robot with a fallen officer’s consciousness on the police force.
  • The casting news broke on Tuesday and the series is in early development with no release date yet announced.